蜀山人（大田南畝）・式亭三馬他 諸家書画寄書|Drawings and Poems by Various Artists
Teisai Hokuba|Shikitei Sanba|Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)|Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)
ca. 1814 · Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk · Asian Art
Yosegaki, or "gathered writings," are collaborative works for which prominent poets and painters of the day would each contribute a poem in Chinese or Japanese or a little drawing on a seasonal or poetic theme. Random in arrangement and disjunctive in perspectival and spatial relationships, the images are a cornucopia of pictorial elements representing sundry aspects of life in Edo (present-day Tokyo) during the early nineteenth century. This work, on silk, is a deluxe example with such an impressive array of contributors that we must assume it was compiled over the course of several months, perhaps with certain poets and artists collaborating on particular sections.
- Artist
- Teisai Hokuba|Shikitei Sanba|Kitao Masanobu (Santō Kyōden)|Shokusanjin (Ōta Nanpo)
- Date
- ca. 1814
- Medium
- Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Culture
- Japan
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Fishbein-Bender Collection, Gift of T. Richard Fishbein and Estelle P. Bender, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019
